I spent days on end at the '82 WF in Knoxville. I formed a company with a friend of mine and we had licenses to sell merch on site and around town. It was a hoot.
Got tons of free press, including a live broadcast of the Today Show.

I think The Big Apple took the unexpected sucess of the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair as an affront.

Then 3 years later -- put on their own Worlds Fair. (good - but I still thought Seattle was better)

Everybody knew about NYC - but the 62 World Fair put Seattle literally on the map.

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Hate to tell you, but it took a lot longer to put on the New Yorks Worlds Fair than two years. Worlds Fairs were the thing back then. Montreal had it's Expo three years after the New York Worlds Fair. I think Knoxville was the last one we had

I think Disney World killed the Worlds Fairs. People just said, I can see better stuff at Theme Parks like Disney and Universal

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